Suspicious package halts Green Line

March 16, 2004

WEST SIDE — Police shut down the Chicago Transit Authority's Green Line between Clark Street and California Avenue for more than an hour Monday afternoon to investigate a suspicious package found on the platform of the Clinton Street train stop.

Police received a call about 2 p.m. Monday of a black briefcase on the platform of the train stop at 540 W. Lake St., News Affairs Officer Matthew Jackson said. Police ordered that trains bypass the stop while the department's Bomb and Arson Squad investigated the briefcase, he said.